St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-11

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-The Tribune
tomorrow will say: There is reason to
believe that Mr.. Garrett was greatly
surprised On his arrival from Europe on
Friday to learn that the Baltimore &
Ohio telegraph lines had been sold and
delivered to the Western Union COM
pany within twenty-four hours of
his landing. Although he had
placed the management of the railroad
company in the hands of powerful
syndicate, and, in fact, was fully in
formed of the progress of the negOtia-
lions about the sale of the auxiliary
companies. Mr.. Garrett was evidently
of the opinion that undue haste had
been made in concluding the great
telegraph sale. Soon after his arrival
Mr.. Garrett was in consultation
with his principal subordinates, from
whom he must have learned the facts of
the sale and actual transfer of the tele-
graph party. His statement later in the
day that he had not signed any paper
may have been susceptible of a double
meaning. but they formed the ground
work for a newspaper story which
aroused brief doubt about the legality
of the sale. The official statements
in behalf of the syndicate and the West
ern Union company proved that his ut
teranceS were inspired by personal dis
appointment or something still more
serious. 1t is worthy of notice perhaps,
that Mr.. Garrett did not visit the MEM
berS of the syndicate in whose hands he
had placed his affairs, and that some of
his friends tried to avoid such meet
ing. 1t is not impossible that
he sought conference with either j..
P. Morgan or Jay Gould, but that they
were pre-warned. Mr.. CARROTS eccen-
trio actions prevented any sober discus
sion of business matters with him, and
on Sunday his friends were anxious
chiefly to remove him from the excite
ment into which he had been thrown.
1t was, only by strategem,5 how
ever, that they succeeded in getting
him on board a train for Baltimore. A
good many stories about him were re-
ported in Wall street yesterday. 1t was
related that he said of his future plans:
II am going to pay the debts of the
Prince of Wales, who will come over
here and run the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, which have given him. l have
bought a palace in Mexico and l am
going down there to manage that
country" 1t was said, also, that he
sent for Robert Stewart, who used to be
manager of his telegraph lines and is
now in the employ of the Western
Union company, and that when Mr..
Stewart entered his room at the Bre-
WORT house, Mr.. Garrett seized him by
the coat collar with both hands, and.
shouting to someone to lock the
door, said to him: Jay Gould
has been following me for four
years and you have been helping him to
do it. III settle with you now" A
gentleman whose position is high in the
financial and business world said yester-
day: Il fear that Mr.. Garrett is insane.
l saw to-day telegram from a gentle
man who saw Mr.. Garrett in Baltimore
and who telegraphed OH here that he
was insane. Another gentleman who
saw Mr.. Garrett before he left the city
says that he has lost control of his mem
tai faculties. He heard him talk and
talked with him, and Mr.. Garrett did
not do much drinking while he was
with him.
Cannot Mr.. CARROTS action and
words be explained on a theory of con-
yivial indulgence?' was suggested.
No, | fear not" was the reply.
From all hear and know it looks like
the other cause. l believe that Mr..
CARROTS condition was aggravated by
the worry and anxiety that beset him at
the time he went to the syndicate for
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